Best Practices
This document holistically identifies the need for timely and reliable detection of hazardous gases as well as design of a leak tight SIP location:
This guidance document closes a significant gap in the understanding and use of SIP as a strategy for risk mitigation.
Foreword Excerpt:
For over 35 years, I have been conducting risk analysis studies on a range of facilities and transportation systems with flammable and toxic hazards. Having conducted hundreds of such analyses, I have evaluated a variety of risk mitigation systems and strategies to manage risks including complex mitigation systems to address hazards associated with highly toxic materials.
While Shelter-in-Place (SIP) has been a common mitigation strategy to mitigate public risk in the event of a toxic release from an operating facility, the use of SIP strategy for onsite personnel protection introduces additional complexities and considerations that should be accounted for in the strategy. However, in all the years I have been conducting risk analysis studies, I have found very few locations that have a good holistic approach to SIP. This became even more evident when, in discussions and deliberations during my participation on the Version 4 and Version 5 Committees to
develop API RP 751: Safe Operation of Hydrofluoric Acid Alkylation Units, I was unable to identify a single document that described a comprehensive approach to using SIP to mitigate toxic risk.
This BakerRisk Best Practice document provides guidance on F&G detector mapping.
A dust explosion can be sudden and catastrophic, causing deaths, injuries, and destruction of entire buildings.
This BakerRisk Best Practice document provides general guidance for performing an FSS to ensure that the consequences or risks to people posed by facility operations are thoroughly, accurately, and defensibly quantified and allow consequences or risks to be minimized to the extent practical.
The objective of a HAC analysis is to minimize uncontrolled ignition by electrical equipment or hot surfaces of flammables in air that could lead to fires or explosions resulting in equipment and property damage as well as potential loss of life.
The HF Alkylation process is an important, core process in refinery operations to produce gasoline that meets modern clean fuels and engine performance requirements.
This document provides field tested suggestions and best practices to help bridge the gap between the standards and fire hazard studies.
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